Writing Wednesdays #22: Just Do It

  

Nike made a slam dunk with its “Just Do It” campaign. Years old, yet it is still encouraging people to get moving. Do something.

 

Mark McGuinness hit it home with his recent post up on Lateral Action, where he reminds us:

 

A creative person is a person who creates things.

You either create something or you don’t. Period.

 

Common sense, right? Yet how many people still hang with the “Just Think About It” failed slogan instead?

 

I’ve started the blog off this year with a Q&A with William S. “MAC” McCallister. He’s in the “Just DO It” camp.

  

Whether you are a soldier or a Marine adapting strategies in Afghanistan, or a school teacher wanting to engage her class, or an aspiring writer wanting to write, just DO IT.

 

Spend 2010 creating, moving into the “Just DONE It” camp.

 

 

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  1. Posted January 8, 2010 at 11:39 AM | Permalink

    I’m starting to use Writing Wednesdays as an incentive.

    Get the work done, THEN read Writing Wednesdays.

    Sometimes, like today, I don’t get here till Friday.

    Always look forward to these, Steve.

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Steven Pressfield

Steven Pressfield is the author of Gates of Fire and four other historical novels set in the ancient world, including The Afghan Campaign. His most recent book is Killing Rommel, a WWII story. He is also the author of The Legend of Bagger Vance and The War of Art.

Mr. Pressfield is a graduate of Duke University and a former Marine. His books are in the curriculum at West Point, Annapolis and the Naval War College, as well as being on the Commandant's Reading List for the Marine Corps. He lives in Los Angeles.

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